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The Global EBook Market: Current Conditions and Future Projections
[author] (2011), 39 pp.
"In Europe, Germany and France are ahead in digitally embracing trade books, notably !ction, yet are clearly behind the US and UK. But countries as diverse as Austria, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden have recently seen the implementation of an ebook distribution infrastructure, and at lea
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Buch und Lesen in der DDR: Ein literatursoziologischer Rückblick
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2011), 440 pp.
No Shelf Required: E-Books in Libraries
Chicago: American Library Association (2011), xiii, 182 pp.
Digital Publishing in Developing Countries
Top Insights
Paris: International Alliance of Independent Publishers (2011), 155 pp.
"Is it conceivable that there may be an autonomous evolution of digital publications in developing countries, entirely independent of the richest nations? What support policies could be implemented to promote the growth of this new industry and accompany traditional actors in the process of adapting
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The Participatory Turn in the Publishing Industry: Rhetorics and Practices
CM: Èasopis za Upravljanje Komuniciranjem = Communication Management Quarterly, volume 6, issue 21 (2011), pp. 203-219
"One of the cultural and media areas in which the issue of participation – with all its ambiguity – has recently emerged to full significance is the area of literature and publishing. Following the music, film and television industries, the publishing industry is in fact facing a vast renewal du
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Petit guide du partenariat éditorial équitable: Comment construire une relation partenariale juste entre un éditeur du Nord et un éditeur du Sud (contexte francophone)
Paris: Alliance Internationale des Éditeurs Indépendants (2011), 13 pp.
Die Lust auf Liebesromane: Ein kleiner Verlag in Lagos holt nigerianische Literatur zurück nach Hause
welt-sichten, issue 11 (2011), pp. 34-35
"Nigeria hat eine lange Lese- und Literaturtradition und kann sich mit mehreren renommierten Schriftstellern schmücken. Trotzdem werden im Land selbst kaum Bücher von einheimischen Autoren herausgegeben. Der Verlag Cassava Republic will das ändern. Das ist nicht leicht, aber die Verleger lassen s
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An Exploratory Investigation Into the Status of Reading Promotion Projects in South Africa
University of Pretoria, Master Thesis (2011), 171 pp.
Optimising Learning, Education and Publishing in Africa: The Language Factor. A Review and Analysis of Theory and Practice in Mother-Tongue and Bilingual Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hamburg; Tunis: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning;Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) (2011), 380 pp.
Structures de diffusion et de distribution du livre africain en Afrique. Modeles de transport entre pays africains et vers l'international. Centrale de distribution d'Afrilivres
Institut Français;Afrilivres;Association Internationale des Libraires Francophones;Alliance Internationale des Éditeurs Indépendants (2011), 69 pp.
The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2011), xii, 422 pp.
"As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and ho
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Arabic Books
In: Arab Media: Globalization and Emerging Media Industries
Noha Mellor; Muhammad Ayish; Nabil Dajani; Khalil Rinnawi (eds.)
Cambridge; Maldon, Mass.: Polity Press (2011), pp. 29-44
Publishing for Profit: Successful Bottom-Line Management for Book Publishers
Key Guidance
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, revised and expanded 4th ed. (2010), xxvi, 373 pp.
Publishing for Profit is all about the business side of publishing. It focuses on managerial organization (e.g. defining market niches, budgeting, cash flow) and functional organization strategies and techniques (e.g. editorial process management, sales, subsidiary rights, fulfilment). A special cha
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Access to Africa’s Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value
African Journal of Information and Communication, issue 10 (2010), pp. 4-19
"This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of the regional and global organisations that advise African countries with respect to their relevance to African scholarly communication. What emerges is a readiness to use the concepts and language of
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ACCU Experts Meeting on Book Development and Reading Promotion in Asia and the Pacific: ACCU’s Achievement Inherited by Asia and the Pacific Towards the Future of Books and Reading
Tokyo: Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) (2010), 52 pp.
"As ACCU decided to conclude its programmes in book development in the fiscal year of 2009, “ACCU Experts Meeting on Book Development and Reading promotion in Asia and the Pacific” was held from 8 to 10 December 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. 20 experts and officials from the field of book development an
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Copyleft-Verlage
In: Argentina Copyleft! Neue Spielregeln für das digitale Zeitalter? Ein Blick nach Argentinien
Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2010), pp. 83-89
Die Auswirkungen der digitalen Ökonomie auf die Buchbranche: Eine Analyse anhand der Entwicklungen in der Musikindustrie
Erlangen: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Buchwissenschaft (2010), 109 pp.
"Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen der digitalen Ökonomie auf die Buchbranche. Während sich die Branche über einen langen Zeitraum in einem relativ stabilen Marktumfeld befand, ergeben sich aus der Digitalisierung ihres Kernprodukts und der Entwicklung neuer Technologien wie z.B
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El espacio iberoamericano del libro 2010
Top Insights
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2010), 216 pp.
La extraducción en la Argentina: Venta de derechos de autor para otras lenguas
Buenos Aires: Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires;Ministerio de Desarrollo Económico (2010), 128 pp.
"El objeto de este trabajo lo constituyen las traducciones a otras lenguas de libros de ficción (narrativa y poesía) y pensamiento (ensayo) de autores argentinos, en el período que se extiende entre 2002 y 2008. Si bien nuestra investigación tiene en cuenta, como marco de referencia, el mercado
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Publishing and Alternative Licensing Models in Africa: Comparative Analysis of the South African and Ugandan PALM Studies
Cape Town; Ottawa: Association for Creative Research and Development;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 117 pp.
Publishing and Alternative Licensing Models in Africa (PALM Africa) has been a two-country research programme conducted in South Africa and Uganda, using action research to explore the potential of open access and flexible and open intellectual property licences with the aim of enhancing the impact
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